LONG POND, Pa. – Kurt Busch dominated Pocono Raceway from the opening lap Sunday and raced his way back into NASCAR championship contention, snapping a 51-race losing skid and rising to the 12th and final spot in the Chase for the Nextel Cup standings with five races left until the championship races begin.

Busch, who missed the Chase last season after qualifying in 2004 and 2005, hadn’t been in the top 12 in points since a 100-point penalty for reckless driving in June knocked him down to 17th. Now he’s back and on his biggest roll of the season. He turned a 13-point deficit behind Dale Earnhardt Jr. into a 29-point edge.

“The big picture is we’ve got a few more races to go,” Busch said.

Busch led all but 25 laps and made his second career Pocono victory look easy. The 175 laps led was a Pocono record. Earnhardt was second and Denny Hamlin finished third. Points leader Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson rounded out the top five. The race didn’t include Robby Gordon, who was suspended by NASCAR for his conduct at Saturday’s Busch Series race in Montreal.

IRL

BROOKLYN, Mich. – Tony Kanaan held off protege Marco Andretti for the final 27 laps and won the Firestone Indy 400, a race marred by a spectacular wreck in which Andretti Green Racing teammate Dario Franchitti took a wild, upside-down ride.

“We did not have the fast car, and the kid was my wingman,” Kanaan said after crossing the finish line less than a car-length ahead of Andretti. “He protected me, but he was also trying, believe me. I said, `OK, let’s play it to the end.’ “

On lap 144, Franchitti’s car was lifted into the air by Dan Wheldon’s; Franchitti came down on top of the car driven by Scott Dixon and, before it was over, four more cars were involved.

“I’m a lucky guy,” Franchitti said.

Formula One

BUDAPEST, Hungary – Lewis Hamilton of McLaren won his third race of the year at the Hungarian Grand Prix, beating Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari and Nick Heidfeld of BMW-Sauber. Fernando Alonso, the defending F1 champion and Hamilton’s teammate, was fourth.

At the start of the race, Hamilton moved away easily while Raikkonen tucked in behind. They essentially stayed that way during the rest of the race, except for pits stops. “It was quite a boring race just staying behind,” Raikkonen said.

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